People talk about, oh well, you know Muhammad Ali is great because he stood up for what he believed in.

No, that's not it.

What makes him different is that he stood for what he stood for.

And he stood for poor people.

He stood for underdogs.

He stood for peace.

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Tom Hartman, democracy now, edge of sports with Dave Zyron, citizen radio and counter spend.

I leave defeated Holy by a knockout in the seventh round.

Immediately thereafter, he walked into the teeth of a monumental decision.

He was drafted and then he refused induction on the grounds of his religious convictions on war.

My kites will let me go shoot my brother, some darker people, some 400 people in the mud,

for big powerful America and shoot them for what?

They never called me nigger, they never let me be.

They put no dogs on me, they never rob me of my nationality,

they'll rape me kill my mother and father.

Well, shoot them for what?

I ain't gonna shoot them.

They're the polar black people, little babies and children, women.

I ain't gonna shoot them for people.

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